Gravitino Dark Matter with Weak-Scale Right-Handed Sneutrino

TL;DR

This paper explores a supersymmetric model where gravitinos serve as dark matter, with right-handed sneutrinos affecting cosmological constraints, potentially allowing for heavier gravitinos and longer free-streaming lengths.

Contribution

It introduces a scenario with right-handed sneutrinos that relaxes cosmological constraints on gravitino dark matter, expanding the viable parameter space.

Findings

Constraints from big-bang nucleosynthesis are relaxed.

Gravitino mass can be relatively large in this model.

The free-streaming length of gravitino dark matter can reach about 1 Mpc.

Abstract

We consider cosmological implications of supersymmetric models with right-handed (s)neutrinos where the neutrino masses are purely Dirac-type. We pay particular attention to the case where gravitino is the lightest superparticle while one of the right-handed sneutrinos is next-to-the-lightest superparticle. We study constraints from big-bang nuleosynthesis and show that the constraints could be relaxed compared to the case without right-handed sneutrinos. As a result, the gravitino-dark-matter scenario becomes viable with relatively large value of the gravitino mass. We also discuss constraints from the structure formation; in our model, the free-streaming length of the gravitino dark matter may be as long as O(1 Mpc), which is comparable to the present observational upper bound on the scale of free-streaming.